Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-23
PENSIONS FOR SERVICE.
IN ADDITION 10 INVALID PENSIONS
ISSUED OR TO ISSUE.

!, 1888, to Endorse the Cent-a-Day
Pensions Bill.
New York, Dec. 22.-The executive
committee of the Rated Service Pension
Association met to-day and issued the
following address and call for convention
to indorse the cent a day service pension
bill:
Headquarters Rated Service Pension AssSocia-
ton, Room l0S Tribune Building, Executive
Committee.
New YoRK, Dec. 10,
To the Veteran Soldiers and Sailors OF
of the Civil War:
The committee addressing you was APP
pointed by the above association Decem-
Der ~, with power TO agitate the ques-
ton of a rated service pension on a basis
of one cent a month for each days sery-
ice rendered. The work of this COM
mittee, as well as that of the association
which it represents, is informal, and we
recommend a convention OF veterans to
form q national organization to complete
the work begun by the present assocfa-
ton. Pending the formation of such a
national organization, the COMMITTEES
asks you to consider the following points:
Whatever improved pension legislation
is received must be done within the next
few months, and this is tbe time to act.
The people are disposed to do Justice
to the veterans, and we need but to state
our case clearly, and base 1t upon princi-
pies of equity and fairness, and we can
succeed.
We should agree upon 4 measure that
veterans everywhere car defend, one that
the press can advocate and one that the
people at large will heartily indorse. We
should work together as one body of vet
erans, without regard to the claims of
the various military societies to which
we belong. This cause 1s a common one,
appealing to every old soldier. We should
! present our demands as a claim for JUS
tice, and should spurn the idea that we
sue for bounty or for a gratui-
ty. The service rendered by the
soldiers and sailors Of the civil
war has not been adequately paid
for. There was a discrimination. The
merchant aud the capitalist who furn-
tshed the supplies and funds realized
enormous gains by exacting wal prices.
The soldier served the government at the
governments own price. the army col
lectively was impressed, although indi-
vidually each man volunteered. The ma
ton called upon each state for a definite
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was made up of men who volunteered to
meet the call. Had those men not vol
unteered, every other man 10 the coun-
try tit for duty would have been drafted.
One man out Of every two would have
been compelled to go to the front had not
the veterans of to-day gone to the rescue
in 1861-65.
The bill which is, submitted with this
address has been adopted by our organ
~ization, and it will be presented at this
session of congress. Its merits are
many, the principal one being those re-
latingg to evidence, tsEss 9 man q IF voting,
the justice secured to men of different
terms of service, and its restriction to
the single feature of pensions for service
actually rendered.
In order to create q national ~organiza-
ton in the quickest time we earnestly rec
ofnniend &c the veterans that steps be
taken at once to form associations in each
assembly district andseIect delegates to a
national convention to be held in New
York city, on the 1st day of March, 1888.
O.tJ. SMITH,
G. A. WELLS,
J. B. HAYES,
J. A. JOEL,
GEORGE l., KILMER.
The following is a copy of the bill re-
ferred to in this address:
PER DIEM RATED
SERVICE PENSION BILL.
A bill to grant pensions for service in
the army, navy snd marine corps Of the
United States.
Be it enacted by the senate and house
! OF representatives of the United States of
America in congress assembled, that the
secretary of the interior ishereby author
lied and directed to place on the pension
roll of the United States the names of all
persons specified in the following section,
upon making due proof that they per-
formed the service specified in said sec
ton.
Sec. Q. That persons entitled as bene-
factors under the preceding sections are
as follows: Any officer or enlisted man
who shall have served in the army, navy
or marine corps of the United States, in
Guiding regulars and volunteers. subse-
quent to the 18th of April, 1851, and
prior to the LIST day of July, 1865.
Sec. 3. That the rate OF pension for
such service shall be at the rate, per
month, of one cent for each days service
rendered in the said army, navy or ma
rine corps Of the United States.
Sec. A. That the period Of service shall
sbe computed from the date OF muster
into the United States service to the date
of discharge, but no pension shall be
granted under this act to or ON account
of any person who deserted prior to July
/, 1855, until he shall have obtained a
discharge from the service from which he
deserted, and no discharge which was
given to any person by reason Of re-enlist-
ment as a veteran volunteer, or to enable
him to accept q promotion, shall be
deemed a discharge from the services
within the meaning OF this act.
Sec. 8. That pensions under this act
shall be at the rate specified III section y,
and shall be paid to the persons entitled
thereto for the term of their lives on and
after the passage of this bill.
Sec. 6. This bill is intended as q serv-
ice pension bill, and is intended as an
addition to all invalid pensions which
have been or may hereafter be granted
for disability.
The Reading Road.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 22.-No for.
mality will attend the handing over OF
the Reading railroad properties by the
receivers to the stockholders in January.
The business will then be conducted by
the president INF board of managers.
The annual meeting will take place a
week later. and ON that occasion Presi-
dent O'Brien will submit his report,
which will embody the statement Of the
receivers. The officers of the ompany
hope to have tie annual report in readi-
ness tor the shareholders a few days be-
fNrn th4 vyaA.Ivx - - II.